The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

The world belongs to passionate driven people.

What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.